vlsub

VLC extension to download subtitles from opensubtitles.org

Author: Guillaume Le Maout
Contact: http://addons.videolan.org/messages/?action=newmessage&username=exebetche
Bug report: http://addons.videolan.org/content/show.php/?content=148752

INSTALLATION:

Save the file "vlsub.lua" in vlc /lua/extensions directory of your OS:

• Windows (all users): %ProgramFiles%\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\extensions\
• Windows (current user): %APPDATA%\vlc\lua\extensions\
• Linux (all users): /usr/lib/vlc/lua/extensions/
• Linux (current user): ~/.local/share/vlc/lua/extensions/
• Mac OS X (all users): /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/lua/extensions/
• Mac OS X (current user): /Users/%your_name%/Library/Application Support/org.videolan.vlc/lua/extensions/

Alternatively if you are using Windows 7 you can use the installer availbale here:
http://addons.videolan.org/content/download.php?content=148752&id=2&tan=28601353

USAGE:

• Start Vlc
• Start your video
• Click on the menu View > VLSub or VLC > Extension > VLSub if you're using Mac OS X
• Click on "Search by hash" or "Search by name"
• Select a subtitles file on the list
• Click on "Download selection"
• That's it, the subtitles should appear on your video

Alternatively if you are using Windows 7 you can use the installer available here:
http://addons.videolan.org/content/download.php?content=148752&id=2&tan=28601353

KNOWN BUG:

LUA handle UTF8 perfectly well but Windows use some UTF16 "little idian" encoding
so any file with any not ASCII characters in is inacessible on Windows only.

Changelog:

2013-07-13 (version 0.9.6)

Add an installer for Windows 7
Bug fix: display download behaviour display on xp
Bug fix: Add error message if github CA certificate is not present when downloading translations
Bug fix: closing dialog on config menu on OS X

2013-07-04 (version 0.9.5)

Add interface localization option

2013-04-25 (version 0.9)

Simplified interface
Bug fix with subrip format (".sub") subtitles
Add a success message when subtitles are loaded
Display a download link to subtitles if direct download fail

2012-12-18 (version 0.8)

[Benoit Vallee] Fixed subtitle downloading when special characters are present on the video path
[Benoit Vallee] Fixed zip file deletion after subtitle has been extracted

2012-10-17 (version 0.7)

[thePanz] Added subtitle language in listing
[thePanz] Added subtitle language in downloaded file (avoid filename collisions during download)

version 0.6

Use definitive user agent for opensubtitle API
Fix a bug when video file path contains accents/special characters on linux (same bug on windows not corrected yet)